You kids have it so easy, with all your modern conveniences.

We had no running water.

I had to go to the bathroom in a bucket…

… we had no toilet paper.  We used old books, newspapers and leaves.

And we worked hard on a farm, not like you slackers …

… you don’t know the meaning of a hard day’s work.

… all you do is play Nintendo

… we were so poor, we played with mud…

… and we liked it.

When I was a little boy, I had to walk many miles to school every day…

… uphill both ways…

… in the snow…

… on my knees.

Cars had only just been invented, but no one owned one.

Roads had not been invented…

And the world was in black and white;

you can tell that from all the old movies and TV shows.  We didn’t even have sound until 1920!

If you were around when I was little, and you had to do all the things I had to do, you’d be dead by now.